Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Heritage England has a current blog post on women architects. Click here.

Sara Losh in particular caught my attention with her links to regions in Northern England that interest me because of my own family history, but I was also impressed with the extraordinarily beautiful arts and crafts style interior of the church associated with her, being St Mary's at Wreay, Cumbria.

Jenny Uglow has written a book about her,The Pinecone, and I look forward to reading it to learn more about this woman described on the cover as "... an individual genius, a Charlotte Bronte of wood and stone"

Saturday, June 20, 2015

Concluding my blog posts about the women of the Zambezi Expedition on my companion Digging the Dust blog is this about Jessie Lennox, who lived to the great age of 102 and was a lifelong friend of Florence Nightingale. Click here to read about her.

A great exhibition currently on at the Museum of London for those lucky enough to live in London or are able to get there!Read about Christina Broom, the UK's first female press photographer, at the London Historians blog and do watch the video on the Museum's own webpage to learn more about her work.

What's The History Bucket?

About Me

The Official Family Portrait

A little worse for wear, but still making a statement

"Regina, freedwoman of Barates, alas!"

Regina lived in the 4th Century AD. She was of the British Catuvellauni, a tribe from the Hertfordshire area, and was sold into slavery. She became the property of Barates of Palmyra (now part of Syria), a merchant of Arbeia, the fort at the Eastern end of Hadrian's Wall (now South Shields). Barates fell in love with her, gave Regina her freedom and married her. Sadly, she died at the age of 30 and, missing her greatly, Barates set up a famous tombstone in her honour. Regina is shown sitting in a high back wicker chair with her jewellery box, spindle and wool. Its inscription is in Latin, but there is also an added mourning line in Aramaic, the language that Barates would have spoken. "Regina, freedwoman of Barates, alas!"